Wiley-World.of.Warcraft.Programming.A.Guide.and.Reference.for.Creating.WoW.Addons

1020 Part IV ■ ReferenceArguments:s—A string (string)Returns:s—A string containing the characters of string s in reverse order (string)Example:strrev(“abcdef“)-- returns “fedcba“strrev(“nametag“)-- returns “gateman“strrev(“Step on no pets“)-- returns “step on no petS“strsplitSplits a string based on another seperator string.... = strsplit(“sep“, “text“, limit)Also available as string.split (though not provided by the Lua standardlibrary).Arguments:sep—The seperator string to use (string)text—The text to split (string)limit—The maximum number of pieces to split the string into (number)Returns:...—A list of strings, split from the input text based on the seperator string(string)Example:-- Split the string “a:b:c:d“strsplit(“:“, “a:b:c:d“, 2)-- Returns “a“, “b:c:d“-- Split the string “a::b::c::d“strsplit(“::“, “a::b::c::d“)-- Returns “a“, “b“, “c“, “d“Lua APIstrsubReturns a substring of a string.s = strsub(“s“, firstChar [, lastChar])Alias for the standard library function string.sub.Arguments:s—A string (string)firstChar—Position of a character in the string (can be negativeto count backwards from the end of the string) (number)lastChar (optional)—Position of a later character in the string (can be negativeto count backwards from the end of the string); defaults to -1 if omitted (number)